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Nik Wallenda planning high-wire stunt for next year's Erie County Fair near Buffalo

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Nik Wallenda rides on the ferris wheel at the Erie County Fair in Hamburg, N.Y., Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Wallenda was scouting locations to perform a high wire stunt at the fair next summer to celebrate its 175th anniversary. (AP Photo/The Buffalo News, Sharon Cantillon)

HAMBURG, N.Y. -- High-wire artist Nik Wallenda returned to Western New York on Wednesday to scout locations to perform a high-wire stunt at the Erie County Fair next summer to celebrate its 175th anniversary.

The seventh-generation member of the famous "Flying Wallendas" family of tight-rope walkers, who lives in Florida, also was at the fairgrounds in Hamburg near Buffalo to help the fair unveil its theme and poster for 2014. Afterward he planned to sign copies of his newly released book.

In June 2012, Wallenda walked a tight rope over Niagara Falls, starting on the U.S. side and completing the stunt on the Canadian side. This past June, he successfully walked a quarter-mile tightrope cable strung 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona. Both events aired on national television.